Reporters at Politico announced that they have submitted a letter with signatures to the National Labor Relations Board in an effort to form a union. Matthew Kaminski, the editor of the political magazine, told staffers that management from Axel Springer, the German publisher that recently purchased the company, has been in touch with the NewsGuild to “discuss...
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LIKE JUNK FOOD? SWALLOW THOSE FAST-FOOD “PLASTICIZERS”
Everywhere you look, from sea to plastic sea, the world’s gone plastic. Earlier this month, Trends Journal wrote about the problem of microplastic particles, which are found almost everywhere and often contain chemicals called phthalates, which are linked to a variety of health problems; see “THINK COVID WILL KILL YOU? HOW ABOUT THIS?” (5 Oct...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
INNOVEGA OFFERS A LOOKING GLASS INTO THE METAVERSE This past week Facebook made it official, changing its corporate name to “Meta”, signaling a focus to be a master corporation of a mixed-reality world. Given Mark Zuckerberg’s penchants, the worlds Meta creates are likely to be more immersive versions of the manipulated and censored social media...
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FBI: THE POLITICIZED POLICE UNDERMINING AMERICA
Last week Ted Cruz eviscerated Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department siccing the FBI on parents airing concerns at school board meetings. Cruz rightly condemned Garland for mobilizing the FBI to act on a vitriolic letter by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) that claimed parents constituted a “domestic terrorism” threat. Among other...
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IN THE EVENT OF SOCIAL CHAOS
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato If we are correct then the term for those who are rather constantly concerned about the prospect of society’s collapse, and of subsequent urban chaos, is “preppers.” Obviously, we believe in being prepared, and so we respect those who occupy themselves with activities that are intended to see to...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
NYDIG ACQUIRES BOTTLEPAY TO EXPAND CRYPTO FOCUS. Every day there are fresh signs that traditional finance is working overtime to catch up and move with haste into the cryptosphere. Case in point: the New York based NYDIG crypto investing firm just bought British payments startup Bottlepay for an estimated 300 million dollars. NYDIG was created...
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WOODEN BATTERIES
Battery chemistry, considered settled science for most of a century, has got new energy in recent years, now that everything from pocket flashlights to electric vehicles is demanding cheap, lightweight, long-lasting portable power. However, our battery-powered world is confronting an undeniable problem: spent batteries contain a liquid or paste-like electrolyte composed of sulfuric acid, hydrochloric...
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TAP WATER SHIELDS AGAINST MICROPLASTICS
The typical person in North America ingests about 100,000 granules of microplastic every year, much of it leaching from the plastic bottles we chug our sodas, water, and energy drinks from, a study by biologists in British Columbia found (“Drinking the Bottle Along With the Water,” 10 Jul 2019). Those bits lodge in the body...
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SPACE FOR RENT
Billionaires may be commercializing space by renting out their rockets to NASA to send payloads aloft or by tossing up wealthy thrill-seekers for joyrides in zero gravity, but Orbital Reef has taken the idea to a different scale. It’s creating a space station in low Earth orbit for rent or lease to research scientists, product...
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ISRAEL’S NEW “SETTLEMENT” PLAN CONDEMNED BY U.S., EUROPE
Israel faced harsh criticism from the U.S. and Europe after announcing plans to allow thousands of new settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was seen as an unnecessary provocation just months after the Israeli clash with Palestine. (See “SPECIAL REPORT: THE GAZA WAR.”) Ned Price, the spokesman for the State Department, called the...